convey the effects of the Interstate construction via several layers whic depict Overtown before and after its construction. Selection from the Blue Map Layer: Overtown Circa Highway Construction Selection from the Red Map Layer: Overtown Post Highway Construction
Overtown: Overview — SEGREGATION BY DESIGN
Downtown Miami and Overtown before and after highway construction and “urban renewal.” In all, construction of I-95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents in Overtown—nearly 100% of them black.
Overtown, Miami, FL - ArcGIS StoryMaps
Oct 23, 2022 · Overtown is constrained by the Florida East Coast Railway line to the east, the Dolphin Expressway and I-95 to the west and the Miami River to the southwest.
Anything But a Slum: Miami-Overtown Before I-95/395
Jun 19, 2024 · Anything but a Slum: Miami-Overtown Before I-95/395 brings together photography, archival video and audio, and historical artifacts to highlight the quiet joys of living within this tight-knit Black community, in the decades before major highway construction irreparably altered its social fabric.
Overtown was a flourishing Miami neighborhood. Then came the …
Dec 13, 2018 · Overtown was first settled by blacks from the Caribbean and other Southern states in the 1890s who were recruited to help build the Florida East Coast Railroad. The neighborhood flourished until the 1960s, when two new highways—I-95 and I-395—went up in the middle of it.
MIAMI: I-95 - I-95 — SEGREGATION BY DESIGN
Construction of I-95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents—nearly 100% of them black. In the 1960s the government used eminent domain to seize buildings across the heart of Miami’s black community in Overtown in order to build the highway.
Overtown (Miami) - Wikipedia
It is bound by NW 20th Street to the north, NW 5th Street to the south, the Miami River, Dolphin Expressway (SR 836), and I-95 (north of the Midtown Interchange) to the west, and the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) and NW 1st Avenue to the east. Local residents often go by the demonym "Towners".
Segregation by Design maps highway expansion in Florida’s …
Nov 15, 2022 · These highways divide the city along racial lines, physically isolating Downtown (and the “Millionaire’s Row” neighborhood of Brickell) from the adjacent neighborhoods of Overtown and Little...
How urban renewal and highways destroyed Overtown, Miami’s …
Aerial footage of Overtown, Miami before and after much of the neighborhood was bulldozed for the construction of I-95 in the ’60s. Over 12,000 residents of the neighborhood were displaced for the highway.(X@SegByDesign, WolfsonArchives.org)
I-95 and its effect on Overtown - Miami - LocalWiki
By the early 1960s, a local housing reform association was estimating that at least three thousand black families would be uprooted from Overtown by the expressway, and possibly as many as twenty-three thousand individuals by all forms on urban redevelopment.